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I tested a fresh GitHub download → Ollama → first local coding-agent task (72 seconds, no cloud API)

I’m building DesktopLab, an open-source local-first control plane for development agents. I recorded the setup boundary that most agent demos skip: DesktopLab detects the host, proposes the supported

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A lot of the questions we get from developers are about the concepts behind the API: TTFT, context windows, sampling, fine-tuning, quantizat…

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A lot of the questions we get from developers are about the concepts behind the API: TTFT, context windows, sampling, fine-tuning, quantization, deployment tradeoffs. We added Learn to the Together do

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A Six-Dimensional Taxonomy of Post-Training Adaptation Techniques with Applications in AI Governance

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arXiv:2608.06246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training adaptation has become central to modern machine learning practice and includes techniques such as retraining, fine-tuning, parameter-effic

Adaptive-WAM: Quality-Guided Early-Exit Planning from Intermediate Video-Diffusion Features

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arXiv:2608.06008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large video diffusion models provide rich spatiotemporal priors for autonomous driving, but existing world-action models often inherit the cost of itera

BioM-JEPA: joint-embedding prediction of graph-connected gene blocks in single cells

arXiv:2608.05928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Single-cell transcriptomes are sparse observations of coordinated biological programmes, yet most self-supervised models learn by reconstructing individ

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Causal Episodic Memory for Feedback-Driven Agent Repair

arXiv:2608.05906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents that repair failures often discard successful corrections, forcing later episodes to rediscover similar solutions. We study whether finalized

Cautious Context Steering for Language Model Personalization

arXiv:2608.05813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalizing language models (LMs) to individual user preferences is essential for aligning responses with diverse goals and backgrounds. Existing meth

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CogVis: Must Open-Vocabulary Change Detection Perceive the Scene Anew for Every Query?

arXiv:2608.06150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Earth-surface monitoring requires change detection models capable of recognizing arbitrary semantic categories. Open-Vocabulary Change Detection (OVCD)

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ConceptADapt: Concept-guided Adaptive Feature Reconstruction with Dynamic Attention for Few-Shot Industrial Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2608.05743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Few-shot industrial anomaly detection (FS-IAD) focuses on detecting and localizing visual defects in industrial inspection during the cold-start phase,

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CUDA-L2: Surpassing cuBLAS Performance for Matrix Multiplication through Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2512.02551v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we propose CUDA-L2, a system that combines large language models (LLMs) and reinforcement learning (RL) to automatically optimi

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d3LLM: Ultra-Fast Diffusion LLM using Pseudo-Trajectory Distillation

arXiv:2601.07568v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) offer capabilities beyond those of autoregressive (AR) LLMs, such as parallel decoding and random-orde

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Deep Generalised Mixed Models: a Novel Neural Network Structure for Analysing Hierarchical Data

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arXiv:2608.05930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The experience sampling method (ESM) is a longitudinal research design where participants report their thoughts, emotional states and behaviours multi

Echo Dot 2 can run 28M LLM at decent speed

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Code and instructions available here: https://github.com/albertoZurini/echo-dot-2-playground Hello there! After a few days of experimenting I was able to get a completely local voice pipeline running

EmoWorld: A Decoupled Affective Field for Controllable Emotional Video Generation

arXiv:2608.06231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotion shapes how viewers interpret a scene, yet existing video generators entangle global atmosphere, affect-bearing semantic cues, and temporal progr

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Energy-Guided Flow Matching

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arXiv:2608.05811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pixel-space generative models bypass lossy latent compression, yet necessitate joint learning of global structure and fine-grained details in a high-dim

EpiBench: Can LLMs Understand Epitopes for Antibody Drug Discovery?

arXiv:2608.06022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Epitopes determine where antibodies bind antigens and shape downstream therapeutic properties such as functional blockade and escape resistance, making

EqDeepRx: Learning a Scalable and Interference Mitigating MIMO Receiver

arXiv:2602.11834v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While machine learning (ML)-based receiver algorithms have received a great deal of attention in the recent literature, they often suffer from

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Equipment-centric workpiece localization in near real-time using deep learning-based vision and event-driven finite state machines

arXiv:2608.05744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous workpiece localization is essential for traceability and process coordination in hot forging, but direct tracking is unreliable because of ex

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Evidential Rule Learning for Interpretable Classification with Abstention

arXiv:2608.05859v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interpretable classification often requires more than accurate predictions for real-life deployment: models should be transparent about the evidence b

GAUGE: A Measurement-Grounded Benchmark for Physical Fidelity in Simulation Engines and Video World Models

arXiv:2608.05948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics engines facilitate large-scale training and evaluation for embodied intelligence, while generative video world models are emerging as implicit s

Got job as Director of AI and Systems development self-taught

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Hey everyone, I just wanted to share my journey here for some motivation. Three years ago, I saw the sudden spike in AI and realized it was the future of tech. My goal at the time was to be an indie g

GST-Bench: Can VLMs Develop Global Spatial Awareness from Video?

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arXiv:2608.05747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial intelligence is fundamental to embodied agents, yet existing benchmarks focus on local spatial perception from single or few viewpoints, overloo

How Google Cloud detects, contains, and protects against emerging threats

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At Google Cloud, securing your data and business systems is our foundational commitment. We empower our customers with the tools, governance, and infrastructure needed to securely deploy workloads and

How to Recognize New Words: A Comparison Between Context Biasing Methods and Speech LLMs

arXiv:2608.05759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recognizing new and rare words - named entities, acronyms, domain specific special words, and other items scarce in training data - remains a key challe

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Hybrid Probabilistic Zonotopes for Identifiable and Refinable Predictive Uncertainty

arXiv:2608.05454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Probabilistic prediction heads in neural networks typically output either a Gaussian mixture or a single conformal region. Neither separates the distinc

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JoyAI-RA 0.5: Scaling Robot Manipulation Learning via Dual Action Alignment

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arXiv:2608.05674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot data is scarce, so generalist policies need to learn from heterogeneous sources, including human egocentric video, simulation, and real robots, wh

Kastor: An efficient fine-tuning strategy for generative emulation of PDE simulations

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arXiv:2608.06107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning offers a promising avenue to accelerate physical simulations by replacing computationally expensive traditional Partial Differential Eq

Large Language Models Threaten Double-blind Review

arXiv:2608.05157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Double blind peer review serves as the scientific community primary defense against status and affiliation bias. Its effectiveness rests on the assump

Look Twice: Training-Free Evidence Highlighting for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2604.01280v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to identify and combine fine-grained visu

M^3R-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Evidence-Grounded Multimodal Metaphor Understanding

arXiv:2608.05817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Metaphor enables the understanding of abstract concepts through cross-domain mappings while conveying affective attitudes. In multimodal scenarios, visu

MACRO: Markov Chain Routing of Transformer Layers

arXiv:2608.05872v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard Large Language Models (LLMs) execute layers sequentially. Dynamic layer routing, i.e. search for a different execution path through layers in

MapTCL: Temporal Consistency Learning via Bidirectional Alignment for Vectorized HD Map Construction

arXiv:2608.05209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constructing reliable online HD maps remains challenging in dynamic urban environments due to moving objects and occlusions. While recent works employ f

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MoCA: Implicit Social Context Analysis

arXiv:2608.05825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human social communication, such as affection and intent, is often conveyed in highly implicit ways, where underlying meanings are expressed through ind

Applications

nnMIL: A generalizable multiple instance learning framework for computational pathology

arXiv:2511.14907v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Computational pathology holds substantial promise for improving diagnosis and guiding treatment decisions. Recent pathology foundation models enable

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Parameter-Efficient Semantic Augmentation for Enhancing Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

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arXiv:2604.04444v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) enables models to detect any object category, including unseen ones. Benefiting from large-scale pre-trainin

PD-GS: Phoneme-Driven 3DGS for Audio-Driven Talking Heads

arXiv:2608.05218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables fast, photorealistic talking-head rendering, yet accurate lip articulation remains elusive: mouth motion is often o

Agents

PPDL: LLM-Based Flows as Probabilistic Programs

arXiv:2608.05234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building reliable applications that leverage large language models (LLMs) remains a significant challenge. While LLMs offer impressive capabilities acro

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Prior-SG: Task and Prior Driven Region Segmentation for Scene Graphs in Arbitrarily-Structured Environments

arXiv:2608.06170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hierarchical 3D scene graphs are a promising representation for high-level spatial reasoning in autonomous mobile platforms. However, existing extract

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PRISM: Distribution-Gated Flow Matching for Controllable Unpaired Image Translation

arXiv:2608.06240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unpaired image-to-image translation must decide, per image, what to change and what to preserve without paired supervision. Many diffusion-based unpai

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Applications

PRISM: Priority-aware Rubric Internalization via Structured Multimodal Data Synthesis

arXiv:2608.05249v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world multimodal instructions often bundle multiple requirements with unequal importance, yet most multimodal training data still reduce instruct

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Relay, Don't Route: Adaptive Population Handoff for Cost-Efficient LLM-Driven Evolution

arXiv:2608.05651v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-driven evolution has shown promise for program search and algorithm discovery, but relying on strong models throughout long

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RP-OPSD: Reasoning-Pivot-Guided On-Policy Self-Distillation for Multilingual Reasoning Transfer

arXiv:2608.06347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual reasoning transfer is crucial for extending reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) beyond high-resource languages. On-polic

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Runtime Observability for Heterogeneous Attention Memory

arXiv:2608.05863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern models no longer keep a plain KV cache: latent caches, learned sparse selectors and recurrent states each carry the model's memory in a different

SkillMemo: Expert-guided Skill Memory Framework for Compositional Embodied Manipulation

arXiv:2608.05970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied visuomotor models, including Diffusion Policy (DP) and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, have demonstrated promising performance on roboti

SR-JEPA: Learning Predictive Latent State in 3D Scenes

arXiv:2608.05774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Joint-embedding predictive architectures learn by predicting latent representations of missing observations, yet many masked JEPAs are evaluated primari

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Symbol Grounding in Neuro-Symbolic AI: A Gentle Introduction to Reasoning Shortcuts

arXiv:2510.14538v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI aims to develop deep neural networks whose predictions comply with prior knowledge encoding, e.g. safety or structural cons

Agents

This might be a good time to mention my recent keynotes titled: 'Agentic AI is Neurosymbolic AI'

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This might be a good time to mention my recent keynotes titled: 'Agentic AI is Neurosymbolic AI' I would have assumed it was fairly obvious, but in case it's not: a million-line codebase (also known a

TLNM: Externally Validated Tooth Detection, Numbering and Segmentation from Smartphone Photographs Using Mask R-CNN

arXiv:2608.06275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Oral health issues affect billions globally, but the cost and limited access to professional dental care hinder preventive oral healthcare. Research rel

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